Leaves of Japanese Cleyera

Japanese Cleyera is evergreen shrub and grow 4.5m (25 feet) height and 3m (10 feet) width in sunny or partial shade area. This shrub is used for many different purpose such as hedge, screen, container plant etc because beauty of its shiny leaves and fragrant flowers.

Buds of Old Type Camellia

This Camellia is old style one (not developed for gardening purpose) so the leaves and buds are smaller than the well known Japanese Camellia. This camellia grows up to 3m (10feet) height and width.

Creeping Juniper

Creeping Juniper is great evergreen ground cover plant. It grows 0.6m (2 feet) height and 3m (10feet) width in full sun and relatively dry area, and it is easy to take care of it. So the important point for planting Creeping Juniper is to keep wide enough area for each of it, never plant it in dense condition.

Winterberry Holly

Winterberry Holly is very popular shrub in USA. It grows up to 4.5m (15 feet) height and 3m (10 feet) width. Even though this shrub prefers to be planted in wet land area, it can grow in regular yard area, too. You can enjoy beautiful red (sometimes orange) berries in winter season.

Inkberry Holly

Inkberry Holly is popular evergreen shrub in south east area of USA. This shrub is strong and easy to grow in most of any condition and grows 2.4m (8 feet) height and 3m (10feet) width.

Inkberry Holly produces black berries in late fall (I heard they are sometime white) and wild birds eat them during winter season.

Catawba Rhododendron

Catawba Rhododendron is a evergreen shrub and grows up to 3m (10 feet) tall and 3m wide. This shrub prefers partial or full shade area, and well drained moist soil. It has beautiful cluster flowers in late spring.

False Holly Tea Olive – Sasaba

These are leaves of Sasaba False Holly Tea Olive. This tree grow slowly up to 3m (10 feet) in the area of partial shade.

Sasaba is a Japanese word and means bamboo leaves in Japan. The leaves of Sasaba False Holly Tea Olive form long and spiny at the ends of them so the name of this false holly become Sasaba.

Japanese Maple Sekka Yatsubusa

Sekka Yatsubusa Japanese Maple grows slowly and up to 3m height and width. Leaves are dense and turn their color to beautiful red in fall like as other Japanese Maple.

Flower of Chinese Fringe Flower

Chinese Fringe Flower is a shrubs and grow about 3m (10 feet) high. This shrub is sometime called Chinese Witch Hazel.

This picture was taken in early spring of a couple of years ago.

Photo for Japanese Fatsia

Japanese Fatsia grows well even in shadow area and the height is about 3m (10 feet). It is not difficult to grow in your yard. And Japanese Fatsia is also good as an indoor plant because this plant is ever green and have good looking large leaves.

We call this plant as 八手(Yatsude). 手 means palm. Their leaves look like big palms so we call them like this.

The meaning (language of flower) of Japanese Fatsia is health.